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Originally Posted by The_Heretic
You're still missing my point. I'll try this once more, and if you don't get it after that I'll just assume the problem is your comprehension:
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1) I don't know why you find the need to be an ass about it
2) I do get it. But all of those points lead back to our population.Or Quantity.... We use pesticides to grow our crops because we are mass producing them. I know all about no-till gardening and using natural ways of controling pests.But when you're trying to keep food on the table for 6 billion people, you can't rely on a swarm of praying mantis' to keep the aphids off your crops. Yeah, natural ways of farming are much better and produce much better tasting food. But this is 2008 and we aren't aztecs. We're consumers...plain and simple.
3) The fact is, we have become too bog for our own good. We've partied like rock stars over the last century and it's catching up with us. We're like crackheads sifting thru the carpet looking for slivers of crack so we can prolong our party a little longer.
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The reason the middle east is now a desert, where once it was the ancient bread basket for the known world, is because of agriculture, not pastoralization of lifestock. The practice of irrigation led to completely destabilizing the water table for thousands of miles and as water was replenished it built up salts from the bedrock to the upper layors
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I think you're oversimplifying that a wee bit. Humans didnt turn it into a desert. The middle east has been a desert for thousands of years.
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Remerging nature with human habitation should be the eventual goal with consideration to what's best for both [no bears in Central Park, etc.].
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examples ????
BTW, that figure of 100K cattle per day came from a slaughterhouse in Salina Kansas that I worked near once. I have no idea what the number is for the entire globe.